tenuity
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Histologically, the perisarc or test in the Graptoloidea appears to be composed of three layers, a middle layer of variable structure, and an overlying and an underlying layer of remarkable tenuity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
To speak philosophically, there is continuity and correspondence; but spirit and matter are not degrees of the same substance, differing only in tenuity, as is commonly supposed.
From In Both Worlds by William Henry Holcombe
In the Geological Museum are also specimens of Berlin and Ilsenburg manufacture; they serve to point the moral that ingenuity is not art, nor tenuity refinement.
From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various
This tenuity is shown by the fact that stars were seen through the tail “as if the tail did not exist.”
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
The bond between the States is of amazing tenuity.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
